Lives remembered: Ray Dolby

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Last updated at 12:01AM, September 24 2013

Ray Dolby

Tony Palmer writes: I first met Ray Dolby (obituary,
Sept 14, Lives
remembered, Sept 25) when we were both at Cambridge, he at Pembroke, me
at Trinity Hall. His rooms were a veritable junkyard of wires and tapes
machines, and he explained that he was already working on a revolutionary
method of getting rid of “tape hiss”.

He told me that his determination to solve this problem came principally from
what he considered a monstrous injustice that had been done him by the Ampex
Corporation, then the leading manufacturer of recording equipment.